Capitolo 18
of arm. So indeed it came to pass. And because I was his
before been born, and for that reason the more darling to him, he looked for
with double diligence to have taught wisely me. For my part, the
more than I have gone in ahead in the study of letters, and more easily,
the greatest became the ardours of my devotion to them, up to that in
truth that I have been spellbound so that my passion to learn that, gladly
going away to my brothers the pomp of glory in arm, the right of
inheritance and the whole honours as which you/they would be due to be mine the
the more born old man, I suddenly ran away from the court of Mars that is probable that I win
learning in the breast of Minerva. And from when I found the heraldry of
reasoning logical more to liking mine that the other forms of
philosophy, I exchanged the whole other weapon for these, and to the
prizes of the victory in war I preferred the battle of chins in
dispute. Since then, traveling through a lot of provinces, and
debating as I went, while whithersoever went me I felt that the study of
my chosen art that the most greater part is in bloom, I became such one as the
Peripatetics.
I CAPITULATE II
OF THE PERSECUTION HE HAD FROM HIS/HER WILLIAM MASTER OF CHAMPEAUX--OF
HIS/HER ADVENTURES AT MELUN, Á. CORBEIL AND AT PARIS--OF HIS/HER WITHDRAWAL
FROM THE CITY OF THE PARISIANS Á. MELUN AND HIS/HER RETURN Á. MONT
STE. GENEVIEVE--OF HIS/HER TRIP Á. HIS/HER OLD HOUSE
I came for a long time to Paris, where especially in those days the art of
dialectics they were very flourishing, and there I met William of
Champeaux, my teacher that a man has distinguished more in his/her science both
from his/her renown and from his/her true worth. With him I remained for some
time, for first well it liked indeed of him; but later me I brought him/it
great pain, because me undertaken to disprove certain of his/her opinions,
attaching not infrequently it in the dispute, and now and then in
these debates I was judged winning. Now this, to those among mine
I befriend students that were classified first, it seemed all the more